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Very fitting title.
Zohran Sellout Mamdani, AOCIA, Bernie Sheep Dog Sanders, Drone King Obama, and Genocide Joe come to mind.
The Democratic Party is the pseudo-left, where the left goes to die, creating the new generation of gatekeepers and upholders of the status quo.
A bit of context, from the article, for the Hitler-Stalin Pact comparison:
The answer is to be found not in the armchair psychoanalysis of Jacobin, but in the class analysis of Marxism. The DSA speaks for privileged sections of the upper-middle class that are deeply opposed to a fundamental redistribution of wealth. It is not and has never been independent from the oligarchy and the state apparatus. Politically, it is a faction of the Democratic Party, a party of Wall Street and the military-intelligence agencies.
Indeed, a significant factor in the gushing of the DSA over Mamdani and his love fest with Trump is a feeling within these layers that Trump is not so bad after all. Dictatorship, fascism, genocide, mass deportation might just be ok if there is a little space for the upper-middle class pseudo-left.
There is precedent for this brand of “left” collaboration with the far right. In August 1939, Stalin’s Soviet Union signed the infamous Hitler-Stalin Pact, aligning with Nazi Germany in a temporary “non-aggression” agreement that disoriented millions of workers and helped pave the way for World War II. Today’s alliance between Mamdani and Trump flows from a similar logic. And within the DSA, and Jacobin in particular, there is a very strong influence of Stalinism.
As the WSWS wrote 10 years ago, following the experience of Syriza in Greece, answering the question, “What is the pseudo-left?”:
"The pseudo-left is anti-socialist, opposes class struggle, and denies the central role of the working class and the necessity of revolution in the progressive transformation of society. It counterposes supra-class populism to the independent political organization and mass mobilization of the working class against the capitalist system. The economic program of the pseudo-left is, in its essentials, pro-capitalist and nationalistic."
Mamdani’s actions once again demonstrate that the use of the term “pseudo-left” is not an epithet or a throw-away phrase, but a political and class characterization. There is nothing “left” about these forces.
Mamdani met with Trump as he was threatening to execute leading members of the Democratic Party, overseeing Gestapo immigration raids in Charlotte, presiding over the Gaza genocide and preparing to direct the military to violently repress protests. These are vast crimes with the most far-reaching implications, crimes in which the DSA is implicated as enablers.
The events of the past several days must be a turning point for all those who genuinely oppose fascism and dictatorship and want to fight for socialism.
Marxism is not just "a fundamental redistribution of wealth.
It is:
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18:59 end or the the hole you're in? You think so? I mean, he says, "Well, I'm uh what does that mean that you're a democratic
19:05 socialist?" Well, I just think there should be a better distribution of wealth is basically what he's saying. And he's misquing Dr. King to basically
19:12 confirm what Fox News says socialism is, which is just redistribution of wealth. When in fact,
19:18 socialism is about ownership. It's about changing the ownership. It's about
19:23 changing the sovereignty. And the only way you can do that is if you address the question of imperialism.
19:30 Because the way that capital is owned and constructed and structured in the USA is imperialist capital. It's it's
19:37 intertwined with the global imperialist system. And so he wants to take revenues from
19:44 that system and basically kind of just promise free [ __ ] to more people from
19:50 it. And that's his whole selling point. The the only way you can be a socialist in America is if you're an
19:56 anti-imperialist. Because if you're saying we need to seize our means of production, we need
20:02 to have ownership of our production, we need to have sovereignty over production,
20:08 then what that means is we have to make it accountable to us and us only. We can't we can't make it relying upon
20:15 financial revenues that come from exploiting the rest of the world. We have to have and own our own [ __ ]
20:22 Yeah, very well said. A lot the social democrats, they just want to divide the
20:28 spoils of imperialism. They're upset that they they're not getting cut of the pie that we're
20:33 stealing from Africa and the global south that they don't benefit from our extraction from oil. And when you see^[[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO0IPTmcCa8 | https://lemmy.world/post/38402972]
Two independents come to mind when discussing democrats?
Who’s paying you?
Re-read, Bernie sheep dog Sanders is used to keep people in the Democratic Party. He is there to help gatekeep and crush independent working-class movements.
This is a desperate and sad remark. We must do better than this.
We need to use our critical thinking muscles often, or else we fall into being apologetics and celebrity worshippers for politicians.
Dissenting views are vital for doing this.
We must always force politicians to do the bidding of the poor and working class; being cheerleaders hinders progress.
We must remember the basics:
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” – Frederick Douglass
Check out Kshama Sawant and Butch Ware for people that seem to show and keep to their word of fighting for the poor and working class.
Here ya go, so you can work out your brain a little:
Kshama's Demands: https://www.kshamasawant.org/demands/
Butch's Platform: https://www.butchware4gov.com/platform